On the lack of movement within the Blazers' offense?
"No. We didn't have a lot of movement at all, especially early. I thought we tried to get ourselves into the game after we got down but (we were) just passing and standing and we weren't making shots. But for whatever reason we needed to move ourselves and move the ball more."

Anything wrong with Brandon?
"No, not that I know of."

How do you explain that he didn't attempt a field goal in the first half?
"Early, there were some double teams (and) he was giving the ball up."

Was he too passive?
"We need him to be aggressive, there's no doubt about that and create some opportunities. And he did, I think he had four assists and I think they all came in the first half. He got free late and was able to knock down shots. But we need guys to knock down some shots against this team."

The poor shooting has been a recurring theme; can you put your finger why?
"I wish I could. Tonight we get 85 attempts, two of our guys can't; they had good looks and weren't able to knock them down. We even shoot 60 percent from the free throw line, so ... you know, we had two days between the games. No, we had some looks that we can knock down, but I think we need to build more rhythm in our offense by moving more."

You showed a little rhythm and cut the game down to four, what happened?
"For a minute there we traded baskets. This team, again, we know they can score and we have to score some points. Tonight we didn't do that. Again, if (we're) not scoring, we tend to then take that to the defensive end of the floor. That's pretty much what happened."

On teetering around .500:
"You have an opportunity to go above .500 and that is what we're playing for, but tonight just scrappiness that we showed just a game ago in the Lakers game, we didn't have that tonight. Again, you have to knock down some shots. We knocked down some shots in that game. Tonight we didn't."

Are the Blazers a good shooting team?
"We can shoot the ball, we have shot the ball. We can shoot the ball. We've had some games where we shot the ball poorly. And tonight, James Jones, who was a 50 percent three-point shooter for most of the season ... a couple of his games (lately) he hasn't gotten anything to fall. I think the Laker game is when he finally got something going ..."

What did you tell the team afterward?
"What happened, pretty much, because again, you have this momentum, you're coming off a real good win and then tonight we didn't play as well as we know we can. The thing is: Let's go. We have to go home and we have Dallas waiting for us."